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package gobblin.data.management.copy.hive;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Partition;
/**
* The {@link org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.IMetaStoreClient} provides `listPartitionsByFilter` method which
* contains a String-type filter parameter. Given the fact that this filter is limited on simple arithmetic filtering
* on partition column, the {@link HivePartitionExtendedFilter} interface extends the semantics of partition filters.
* One example is that you can filter partitions based on the partition location.
*/
public interface HivePartitionExtendedFilter {
/**
* @return If a partition should be accepted or not.
*/
public boolean accept(Partition partition);
}